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The life of a political speech(writer): Metadiscursive text trajectories in high‐end language work

Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, Volume 33, Issue 3, Page 264-284, December 2023., 2023
Abstract Following Thurlow's (2020b) understanding of “wordsmiths,” in this paper I document an underexplored and markedly high‐end area of language work: political speechwriting. Drawing on Macgilchrist and Van Hout's (2011) text trajectory approach to ethnographic discourse analysis I engage with two primary areas of scholarship: metadiscourse and ...
Gwynne Mapes
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Interactive metadiscourse in L1 and L2 English: Evidence from editorials

Topics in Linguistics, 2023
This study investigates the use of interactive metadiscourse markers in first language (L1) and second language (L2) English editorials. It also identifies how L1 and L2 editorials differ in the use of these markers.
Alghazo Sharif, Al-Anbar Khulood, Altakhaineh Abdel Rahman Mitib, Jarrah Marwan   +3 more
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METADISCOURSE MARKERS IN THE UNDERGRADUATE THESIS INTRODUCTION WRITTEN BY ENGLISH DEPARTMENT STUDENTS IN UNIVERSITY OF BENGKULU

Journal of English Education and Teaching, 2019
This research is aimed to find metadiscourse form and metadiscourse category which are dominantly used in the undergraduate thesis introduction written by English Department students of Bengkulu University.
Putri Agustinos, Safnil Arsyad, Syahrial .   +2 more
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Roles of Visual and Linguistic Metadiscourses in Developing Persuasive Infographic Resumes [PDF]

Research in English Language Pedagogy, 2023
An infographic resume is an effective medium of exchanging information from job applicants to employers, and it greatly affects and persuades employers to take action. The current study examines both how frequently linguistic and the visual metadiscourse
Omid Allaf-Akbary
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Metadiscoursal Markers in Medical and Literary Texts

International Journal of English Linguistics, 2012
English medical and literary texts were compared and contrasted to find out whether there were any significant differences between the two kinds of texts in terms of the number and types of metadiscoursal markers. To this end, first, 30 medical and literary journal articles were chosen. Then, 3 successive paragraphs were extracted randomly from each of
Marzieh Mostafavi, Ghaffar Tajalli
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Metadiscourse, Cohesion, and Engagement in L2 Written Discourse

Languages, 2020
The current study examines how L2 Chinese writers at different proficiencies employed various metadiscourse devices to shape their written descriptive discourse and also whether various metadiscourse features may distinguish levels of writing proficiency.
Jianling Liao
doaj   +1 more source

Whites and Browns: A Contrastive Study of Metadiscourse in English Newspaper Editorials

Register Journal, 2021
Metadiscourse is an interesting field of inquiry that is believed to play a vital role in organizing and producing persuasive writing. It is a set of linguistic devices used to communicate attitudes and mark the structural properties of a text. The study
Muhammad Imtiaz Shahid, Hafiz Muhammad Qasim, Muhammad Hasnain   +2 more
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Interpersonal Metadiscourse Markers in Persuasive Local Newspaper Articles: A Cross-Cultural Study [PDF]

مجلة کلية الاداب جامعة حلوان, 2022
Across local Egyptian and British newspapers, the researcher intends to investigate the function of interpersonal metadiscourse markers in building and achieving persuasion.
Tamer Hamed Mohamed
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INTERPERSONAL METADISCOURSE MARKERS AS PERSUASIVE STRATEGIES IN BARACK OBAMA’S 2012 CAMPAIGN SPEECHES

Aksara, 2017
One of language features which can be applied to reach the persuasive goal is interpersonal metadiscourse. Although it has been frequently investigated in written texts, research on interpersonal metadiscourse in campaign speeches is still relatively ...
Bayu Permana Sukma
doaj   +1 more source

Functional Analyses of Metadiscourse Markers in L2 Students’ Academic Writing [PDF]

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2019
Stance in general and metadiscourse markers, in particular, have attracted the interest of several studies. Therefore, this study explores the use of metadiscourse in the second language (L2) academic writing by English as a foreign language (EFL) postgraduates in one of the Malaysian public universities.
Arab World English Journal, Nayef Jomaa Jomaa, Mohammad M. Alia   +2 more
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